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Confirms the system was still suspended and that an execution-of-judgment hearing was being held to fix audit conditions; notes the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy asked for an impact assessment during a visit. A vendor name (Danaide) appears here only and was not carried into the entry. 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Kept for one negative finding that prevents a false 'restart' claim: the 2025 facial-recognition purchase in Buenos Aires (Clearview AI, US$27,588) was made by the Ministerio Público Fiscal for images already in evidence, a different body and a different use from the SRFP's live street matching. 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Sources the launch date (\"began operating on April 24, 2019\"), the ~300-camera deployment inside a network of nearly 13,000, and the mechanism: CONARC \"lacks photographs of charged individuals, so the system pulls reference images from Argentina's population registry.\" Also the minors finding — \"at least 166 children have been listed in CONARC between May 2017 and May 2020\" — against the city's denial that CONARC held data on minors. 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Carries the city's own claim verbatim — \"1.695 personas fueron identificadas y puestas a disposición de la Justicia\" — alongside the court's finding of \"más de 9 millones de consultas\" against a CONARC of \"entre 35 mil y 40 mil registros\", and the searches for the President, Vice-President, politicians, activists, judges and journalists. 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National Reference of Fugitives and Arrests).\" It is a national register, not a city one.", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-1a1fb6f3647bbd6e", "field": "snippet", "text": "CONARC carries names & ID numbers but no photographs, so reference faces were drawn from the national identity registry, RENAPER", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-5a008cea7acdd15b", "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a" ], "supportNote": "Human Rights Watch states the mechanism directly: \"Because CONARC does not include photos of those charged with a crime, the SRFP pulls reference photos from the country's population registry.\" The injunction linked from the judiciary's report quotes the system's own operators describing the join and the fields CONARC does carry: \"la CONARC nos da datos que se actualizan todos los días a las 7 de la mañana y nosotros tenemos los datos filiatorios, DNI, tipo de causa, juzgado\" and \"el dato biométrico lo macheamos con el RENAPER\".", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-45cea9ed56093991", "field": "snippet", "text": "The city says the system put 1,695 people in the hands of the courts", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4a06621e66b52f31" ], "supportNote": "The outlet attributes the figure explicitly to the city government rather than to any audit: \"Según informaron a este medio desde el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, desde la puesta en marcha del sistema, 1.695 personas fueron identificadas y puestas a disposición de la Justicia.\"", "caveat": "This is the city government's own count, supplied to the outlet. No independent verification of it appears in the case file.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e5eaabce31e78730", "field": "snippet", "text": "the judicial file showed the security ministry had pulled roughly 9.9 million biometric records covering some 7.5 million people", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "src-cbf1f9faf68b19c2" ], "supportNote": "The injunction linked from the judiciary's report gives the total: \"ESTO ES, UN TOTAL DE EXTRACCIONES DE 9.900.282 EN MENOS DE DOS AÑOS, DENTRO DE LOS QUE EL SRFP SE HABRÍA ENCONTRADO MAYORMENTE INACTIVO\", and elsewhere records that \"el Ministerio de Justicia y Seguridad extrajo 9.392.372 veces datos biométricos al ReNaPer\". CELS supplies the number of people behind those queries: \"La Policía de la Ciudad hizo casi 10 millones de consultas sobre 7,5 millones de personas.\"", "caveat": "The 9.9 million total is stated in the injunction itself, which is the PDF linked from this page rather than the article text. The figure of 7.5 million people is not in the order; it comes from CELS's account of the same file, which attributes the queries to the City Police where the order attributes them to the city's justice and security ministry.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-f840a61c77256fef", "field": "snippet", "text": "among them journalists, politicians, judges and activists", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4a06621e66b52f31" ], "supportNote": "The outlet names people in each of the four groups whose data was queried: \"el Presidente y la Vicepresidenta de la Nación; otros políticos del oficialismo y la oposición como la presidenta del PRO Patricia Bullrich y la diputada Myriam Bregman (FIT); dirigentes sociales como Juan Grabois y de Derechos Humanos como Estela De Carlotto y Hebe de Bonafini; ... funcionarios judiciales como el juez de la Corte Suprema Carlos Rosenkrantz; y periodistas como Gustavo Sylvestre y Eduardo Feinmann\".", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-5823b8adb8f3d31b", "field": "snippet", "text": "A city judge suspended it in April 2022", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a" ], "supportNote": "The city judiciary's own report dates the precautionary measure to 12 April 2022 and names the judge: \"El titular del Juzgado n.° 2 del fuero Contencioso Administrativo, Tributario y de Relaciones de Consumo de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Andrés Gallardo\". He decided \"ordenar al GCBA suspender el Sistema de reconocimiento facial de prófugos (SRFP), en el ámbito de la CABA, sin que ello merme de ninguna manera los restantes sistemas de videovigilancia, monitoreo urbano preventivo forense\".", "caveat": "This was an interim injunction rather than a final ruling, and it reached only the fugitive facial recognition system: the order expressly left the city's other video-surveillance and urban-monitoring systems running.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-37ce95e86f2a104d", "field": "snippet", "text": "a second declared its implementation unconstitutional in September 2022", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-cbf1f9faf68b19c2", "src-fa52265be06569f4" ], "supportNote": "CELS reports that \"La jueza en lo Contencioso Administrativo de la Ciudad, Elena Amanda Liberatori\" declared the implementation unconstitutional, and its English account confirms both the month and that the finding attached to the implementation: the appeal court \"upheld City Administrative Judge Elena Liberatori's decision in September 2022, which stated that the SRFP was implemented without due protection of inhabitants' rights.\"", "caveat": "The ruling struck down the way the system was implemented, not the technology as such. The exact day is unsettled: CELS gives 7 September 2022 while the law-firm note dates the judgment 26 October 2022, which is why only the month is named.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-910a9dea6266baa3", "field": "snippet", "text": "the appeals court confirmed that on 28 April 2023", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-fa52265be06569f4" ], "supportNote": "CELS reports the confirmation and its date: \"a ruling that was confirmed by the Court of Appeals on April 28.\" It identifies the bench and the losing parties: \"Chamber I rejected the appeals submitted by the City Government and the Public Prosecutor's Office\". The court did not simply endorse a ban; it set conditions before any restart, the first being \"Establishment and proper functioning of oversight bodies\".", "caveat": null, "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-16024a3d470cb31e", "field": "snippet", "text": "It has not run since.", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-e60817a15d3b52b2" ], "supportNote": "Writing in October 2025, the outlet reports the system is still not operating and explains why: \"El Sistema de Reconocimiento Facial de Prófugos permanece suspendido debido a un punto muerto\" — the city offering \"una auditoría de 'caja negra' (sin acceso al código fuente)\" while civil society demands deeper scrutiny.", "caveat": "The courts did not outlaw the technology outright: they barred a restart until oversight conditions are met, and El Grito del Sur notes that narrowly defined use with a prior judicial order was later allowed. What the sources establish is that the live street-matching system has stayed switched off.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-e460813badeda412", "field": "impact", "text": "1,695 people identified and handed to the courts, April 2019 to April 2022 (Buenos Aires city government, via Chequeado)", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4a06621e66b52f31" ], "supportNote": "The outlet carries the city's own figure and its attribution: \"Según informaron a este medio desde el Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, desde la puesta en marcha del sistema, 1.695 personas fueron identificadas y puestas a disposición de la Justicia.\" The article was published on 21 April 2022, days after the suspension.", "caveat": "The source says only \"since the system was switched on\" and names no end date. The April 2022 endpoint is the date of the article itself, not a period the city stated.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-a6e5dafeb1e1fa50", "field": "impact", "text": "9,392,372 biometric queries to RENAPER between 25 April 2019 and 20 December 2021, plus 507,911 more to 9 March 2022, covering about 7.5 million people", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "src-cbf1f9faf68b19c2" ], "supportNote": "The injunction reproduces the national registry's own report verbatim: \"SEGÚN LO INFORMADO POR EL RENAPER, LAS SOLICITUDES DE DATOS BIOMÉTRICOS EFECTUADAS POR EL GCBA ENTRE EL 25/04/2019 Y 20/12/2021 FUERON 9.392.372 Y ENTRE EL 21/12/2021 Y EL 09/03/2022 FUERON 507.911.\" The second period begins on 21 December 2021, the day after the first ends, so the two do not overlap. The count of people behind the queries is CELS's: \"casi 10 millones de consultas sobre 7,5 millones de personas\".", "caveat": "Both figures sit in the injunction PDF linked from this page, not in the article text on the page itself. The 7.5 million people figure does not appear in the order at all; it comes from CELS's reading of the same file.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-6bfd336557cda67a", "field": "impact", "text": "against a CONARC list of 35,000-40,000", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "src-4a06621e66b52f31" ], "supportNote": "The injunction states: \"LAS PERSONAS INCLUIDAS EN LA CONARC AL 25/04/2019 ERAN APROXIMADAMENTE 35.000 Y AL MOMENTO DE LA CONTESTACIÓN DEL OFICIO ASCENDÍA A APROXIMADAMENTE 40.000 REGISTROS\". Chequeado gives the same span: \"mientras la base de la Co.Na.R.C (rebeldías y capturas) tiene entre 35 mil y 40 mil registros\".", "caveat": "The two numbers are not a range measured at one moment: 35,000 is the size of the list when the system launched in April 2019, and 40,000 its size when the national registry answered the court.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-25b6997506ed0b6a", "field": "impact", "text": "including at least 15,459 searches of people not on that list", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-4c18dd5a3e423eaa" ], "supportNote": "The analysis of the September 2022 judgment states: \"at least 15,459 search records in the SRFP were about individuals that were not included in the CONARC registries\". CELS's English account gives the rounder form of the same finding: \"the system was used illegally to search for more than 15,000 people who were not listed as fugitives\".", "caveat": "This precise figure is not in the April 2022 injunction; it comes from the September 2022 judgment as reported in this analysis.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-c814e10468469910", "field": "lesson", "text": "The law confined the system to people on CONARC", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "src-fa52265be06569f4" ], "supportNote": "The injunction quotes the governing article of Law 5.688 as amended: \"[s]alvo orden judicial, se encuentra prohibido incorporar imágenes, datos biométricos y/o registros de personas que no se encuentren registradas en el CONARC\" (art. 485 bis). CELS states the same limit plainly: \"By law, the SRFP must be used exclusively to search for people on that list.\"", "caveat": "The statute allowed one exception the sentence does not mention: a judicial order could authorise including someone who was not on CONARC.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-c41d730ae1aa3431", "field": "lesson", "text": "the Legislature's oversight commission was never seated and the ombudsman's audit never happened", "statementKind": "descriptive", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-cbf1f9faf68b19c2" ], "supportNote": "CELS lists both failures among the grounds of the ruling: \"la no constitución de la Comisión Especial en la Legislatura de la CABA\" and \"la falta de informes por parte de la Defensoría del Pueblo CABA\", alongside \"la inexistencia de un estudio de impacto sobre los derechos de los ciudadanos previa implementación del SRFP\".", "caveat": "The ombudsman's office was not wholly inactive: the injunction records that it answered the court's requests for information and supplied documented cases of wrongful stops. What never happened was the standing oversight reporting the law envisaged.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } }, { "id": "clm-b44b2a7999396988", "field": "lesson", "text": "so the nine million queries surfaced only once a court demanded the logs", "statementKind": "quantitative", "textMode": "verbatim-from-project-record", "mappingStatus": "mapped", "sourceRefs": [ "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "src-fa52265be06569f4" ], "supportNote": "The injunction records that the judge ordered reports from the national bodies: \"se requirieron informes al Ministerio de Justicia y Derechos Humanos de la Nación y al Ministerio del Interior de la Nación – Registro Nacional de las Personas (ReNaPer)\". CELS describes the same sequence and what it produced: \"He then asked the National Registry of Persons (ReNaPeR) for the list of persons whose biometric data had been migrated to the City Government. This revealed that the City Police had made almost 10 million queries on 7.5 million people.\"", "caveat": "The sources show the count emerged from records the court ordered produced. They do not establish that no other route could have surfaced it.", "interpretation": { "added": false, "interpolation": false, "note": "The passport copies the published claim and its recorded source mapping without adding a conclusion." } } ], "sources": [ { "id": "src-5a008cea7acdd15b", "title": "Human Rights Watch — letter to the Mayor of Buenos Aires on the facial recognition system and children's rights", "url": "https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/10/09/letter-buenos-aires-mayor-horacio-rodriguez-larreta-re-facial-recognition-system", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "hrw.org", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-7d0899861cb0f87d", "clm-bd698eae3fe64f36", "clm-1a1fb6f3647bbd6e" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2020-10-09", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-23", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "9 Oct 2020. Sources the launch date (\"began operating on April 24, 2019\"), the ~300-camera deployment inside a network of nearly 13,000, and the mechanism: CONARC \"lacks photographs of charged individuals, so the system pulls reference images from Argentina's population registry.\" Also the minors finding — \"at least 166 children have been listed in CONARC between May 2017 and May 2020\" — against the city's denial that CONARC held data on minors. 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Carries the city's own claim verbatim — \"1.695 personas fueron identificadas y puestas a disposición de la Justicia\" — alongside the court's finding of \"más de 9 millones de consultas\" against a CONARC of \"entre 35 mil y 40 mil registros\", and the searches for the President, Vice-President, politicians, activists, judges and journalists. Fetched successfully.", "exact": false }, "preservation": { "archiveUrl": null, "archivedAt": null, "contentHash": null, "status": "not-captured" } }, { "id": "src-c6b5cb3942701c5a", "title": "iJudicial (Poder Judicial de la Ciudad) — Suspenden el sistema de reconocimiento facial de prófugos", "url": "https://ijudicial.gob.ar/2022/suspenden-el-sistema-de-reconocimiento-facial-de-profugos/", "publisher": { "name": null, "domain": "ijudicial.gob.ar", "classification": "not-classified" }, "sourceType": "web-page", "language": "und", "role": "claim-evidence", "claimRefs": [ "clm-1a1fb6f3647bbd6e", "clm-e5eaabce31e78730", "clm-5823b8adb8f3d31b", "clm-a6e5dafeb1e1fa50", "clm-6bfd336557cda67a", "clm-c814e10468469910", "clm-b44b2a7999396988" ], "temporal": { "publishedAt": "2022-04-12", "updatedAt": null, "sourceCheckedAt": null, "recordLastVerifiedAt": "2026-07-26", "dossierCreatedAt": "2026-08-23", "retrievedAt": null, "status": "publication-and-record-dates-recorded" }, "locator": { "type": "descriptive-source-note", "value": "Dates the precautionary suspension to 12 April 2022 and names Judge Roberto Andrés Gallardo, Juzgado CAyT y de Relaciones de Consumo Nº 2. Other video-surveillance systems were left running; forensic audits of the equipment used to hold the migrated RENAPER data were ordered. 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Dates the first-instance ruling 7 September 2022 (Judge Elena Liberatori). Fetched successfully. 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